tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/5/feed_itemsBerkman Center Newsfeed2018-05-17T15:24:56-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24461552018-05-17T15:24:56-04:002018-05-17T15:24:56-04:00gweber20 years of the Laws of Cyberspace <h3>
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</p><p>It’s been two decades since Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig published “The Laws Of Cyberspace,” which, in the words of Professor Jonathan Zittrain, “imposed some structure over the creative chaos of what maybe was a field that we’d call cyberlaw.”</p>
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<blockquote><p>What if an architecture emerges that permits constant monitoring; an architecture that facilitates the constant tracking of behavior and movement. What if an architecture emerged that would costlessly collect data about individuals, about their behavior, about who they wanted to become. And what if the architecture could do that invisibly, without interfering with an individual’s daily life at all? … This architecture is the world that the net is becoming. This is the picture of control it is growing into. As in real space, we will have passports in cyberspace. As in real space, these passports can be used to track our behavior. But in cyberspace, unlike real space, this monitoring, this tracking, this control of behavior, will all be much less expensive. This control will occur in the background, effectively and invisibly. -Lawrence Lessig, "The Laws of Cyberspace," 1998</p></blockquote>
<p>It’s been two decades since Harvard Law School Professor <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10519/Lessig">Lawrence Lessig</a> published <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/works/lessig/laws_cyberspace.pdf">“The Laws Of Cyberspace,”</a> which, in the words of Professor Jonathan Zittrain, “imposed some structure over the creative chaos of what maybe was a field that we’d call cyberlaw.” Lessig’s groundbreaking paper describes four types of constraints that together regulate behavior – law, social norms, the market, and architecture – and argues that due to its special architecture, cyberspace is different from “real” space and thus subject to new possibilities for control by governments and other centers of power. “The world we are entering is not a world where freedom is assured,” Lessig wrote in 1998, but instead, “has the potential to be the most fully, and extensively, regulated space in our history.”</p>
<p>On April 16, the Berkman Klein Center of Internet &amp; Society hosted <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018/04/Lessig">a special event</a> commemorating the 20th anniversary of the publication of “The Laws of Cyberspace,” with Lessig, Harvard Law School Professors <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/11409/Okediji">Ruth Okediji</a> and <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10992/Zittrain">Jonathan Zittrain</a>, and Dr. <a href="https://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/denardis.cfm">Laura DeNardis</a> of American University. The panelists reflected on the paper, and where the field of cyberlaw has taken us over the last two decades, and they considered how some of the concerns raised in 1998 might apply today.</p>
<p>“I was sitting on that bench outside the Lewis building,” recollected Okediji of the day 20 years ago when she first read the paper, “and I will never forget both my sense of sheer terror that we were launching something that we had no idea where it would lead us, and then this sense of skepticism: ‘Well, how does he know he’s right?’” She explained that “The Laws of Cyberspace” led to her own work thinking about internet governance, social interaction on the net and the law. “It’s been 20 years, and Larry was right,” she said.</p>
<p>Lessig told the audience that the paper came in part out of a feeling of frustration. He feared that many internet enthusiasts were taking for granted that the freedom the internet allowed in 1998 was the freedom it would always allow, and he wanted to make the point that the regulability of place is a function of its architecture and thus not guaranteed. Without deliberate interventions, the lack of regulation that so many cherished in the early days of the internet could slip away.</p>
<p>“The architecture of the internet as it originally was made it really hard to regulate, but you might imagine the technology evolving to persistently watch everything you’re doing and enable simple traceability,” he said. “All of these evolutions in the architecture increase the regulability of the space, and then we’d need to decide, ‘Do we like that? Do we want that?’”</p>
<p>Lessig explained that even in 1998, governments and private markets seemed to be interested in increasing regulability and the ability to track what people were doing for the purposes of commerce and control.</p>
<p>“Arrangements of technical architecture are arrangements of power,” explained DeNardis. “This often has nothing ttag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24409082018-05-10T17:39:18-04:002018-05-10T17:39:18-04:00candersenArt that Imitates Art: Computational Creativity and Creative Contracting <h3>
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Join us for our last Tuesday Luncheon of the academic year! Cyberlaw Clinicians Jess Fjeld and Mason Kortz for a discussion about copyright in AI-generated works, the need for a shared understanding of what is and isn’t up for grabs in a license, and how forward-thinking contracts can prevent AI developers and artists from having their rights decided by (often notoriously backwards-looking) legal system. </p>
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Wasserstein Hall, Room 1015</strong> <strong><a>RSVP required to attend in person</a>
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<p>Computational creativity—a subdomain of artificial intelligence concerned with systems that replicate or assist human creative endeavors—has been the subject of academic inquiry for decades. Now, with recent improvements in machine learning techniques and the rising popularity of all thing AI, computational creativity is a medium for critically and commercially successful works of art. From a 2016 Rembrandt to Jukedeck’s instant music (or muzak?), AI-assisted and AI-driven works are a reality. This raises mind-bending questions about the nature of creativity, the relationship between the artist and the viewer, even the existence of free will. For many lawyers, it also raises a more immediate question: who owns all of this art?</p>
<p>Join Cyberlaw Clinicians Jess Fjeld and Mason Kortz for a discussion about copyright in AI-generated works, the need for a shared understanding of what is and isn’t up for grabs in a license, and how forward-thinking contracts can prevent AI developers and artists from having their rights decided by (often notoriously backwards-looking) legal system.</p>
<p><strong>About Jessica</strong></p>
<p>Jessica Fjeld is a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic. She works in diverse areas including intellectual property, media and entertainment (particularly public media), freedom of expression, and law and policy relating to government and nonprofit entities. Before joining the Clinic, Jessica worked in Business &amp; Legal Affairs for WGBH Educational Foundation, and as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp; Flom LLP focused in corporate transactions. She received a JD from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent Scholar and Managing Editor of the Journal of Law and the Arts; an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts; and a BA from Columbia University.</p>
<p><strong>About Mason</strong></p>
<p>Mason Kortz is a clinical instructional fellow at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, part of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society. His areas of interest include online speech and privacy and the use of data products (big or small) to advance social justice. Mason has worked as a data manager for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a legal fellow in the Technology for Liberty Project at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, and a clerk in the District of Massachusetts. He has a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in Computer Science and Philosophy from Dartmouth College. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, reading, and game design.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24397452018-05-09T15:00:10-04:002018-05-09T15:00:10-04:00candersenShaping Consumption: How Social Network Manipulation Tactics Are Impacting Amazon and Influencing Consumers <h3>
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This talk examines the ways that these same manipulative tactics are being deployed on Amazon, which is now the dominant product search engine and a battlefield for economically and ideologically motivated actors. </p>
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<p>Narrative manipulation issues - such as manufactured consensus, brigading, harassment, information laundering, fake accounts, news voids, and more - are increasingly well-documented problems affecting the entire social ecosystem. This has had negative consequences for information integrity, and for trust. This talk examines the ways that these same manipulative tactics are being deployed on Amazon, which is now the dominant product search engine and a battlefield for economically and ideologically motivated actors.</p>
<p><strong>About Renee</strong></p>
<p>Renee DiResta is the Director of Research at New Knowledge, and Head of Policy at nonprofit Data for Democracy. Renee investigates the spread of disinformation and manipulated narratives across social networks, and assists policymakers in understanding and responding to the problem. She has advised Congress, the State Department, and other academic, civic, and business organizations about understanding and responding to computational propaganda and information operations. In 2017, Renee was named a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and had the opportunity to continue her work with the support of the Presidents Bush, President Clinton, and the LBJ Foundation. In 2018, she received a Mozilla Foundation fellowship and affiliation with the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard University to work on their Media, Misinformation, and Trust project. She is a Founding Advisor to the Center for Humane Technology, and a Staff Associate at Columbia University Data Science Institute.</p>
<p>Previously, Renee was part of the founding team of venture-backed supply chain logistics technology platform Haven, where she ran business development and marketing, and a co-founder of Vaccinate California, a parent-led grassroots legislative advocacy group. Renee has also been an investor at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), focused on hardware and logistics startups, and an emerging markets derivatives trader at Jane Street Capital. Her work and writing have been featured in the New York Times, Politico, Slate, Wired, Fast Company, Inc., and the Economist. She is the author of the O’Reilly book “The Hardware Startup: Building Your Product, Business, and Brand”, and lives on the web at <a href="http://reneediresta.com">http://reneediresta.com</a> and @noUpside.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24410442018-05-10T21:00:48-04:002018-05-10T21:00:48-04:00gweberGAiA releases its annual report highlighting its effort to increase access to medicines to the world’s neediest <h3>
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</p><p>Global Access in Action (GAiA) launched its annual report today highlighting the major progress made in 2017 to expand access to medicines to the world’s neediest.</p>
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<p>Cambridge, May 8, 2018 - Global Access in Action (GAiA) launched<a href="http://www.globalaccessinaction.org/2018/05/08/gaia-releases-its-annual-report-highlighting-its-effort-to-increase-access-to-medicines-to-the-worlds-neediest/"> its annual report</a> today highlighting the major progress made in 2017 to expand access to medicines to the world’s neediest.</p>
<p>2017 marked a year of significant progress made by GAiA in its effort to improve access to medicines to the vulnerable populations. The annual report showcases major projects undertaken by GAiA, its active engagement with various local and global stakeholders as well as organizational expansion in terms of staffing in the year of 2017.</p>
<p>One of the major projects undertaken by GAiA in 2017 was the expansion of a pilot project that aims to develop a public health sensitive legal framework that allows for sustainability of low-cost medicine supply while providing legal protections that are necessary to incentivize innovations to pharmaceutical companies. The project started in 2016 in Namibia and further expanded to two other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Malawi and Mozambique. The initiative also involved collaboration with Global Good to fight substandard and falsified (S&amp;F) medicines in sub-Saharan Africa with the use of field detection technology- miniature spectrometer.</p>
<p>While access to medicines is an issue at stake, the problem of S&amp;F medicines can exacerbate the existing access challenge. In the introductory letter of the annual report, GAiA’s Co-Directors, William Fisher and Quentin Palfrey stressed that, “Even those who have access are at risk of consuming counterfeit medicines in many countries that often lead to lethal consequences.” GAiA is envisioning and working to establish a quality assurance network among the countries involved in the pilot project to allow for data sharing on S&amp;F medical products.</p>
<p>Along with the expansion of the pilot project, GAiA also published a green paper, “Expanding Access to Medicines and Promoting Innovation: A Practical Approach” in the April edition of <em>Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy</em> exploring practical strategies initiated by pharmaceuticals companies to solve the access barriers in low- and middle- income countries.</p>
<p>Click<a href="http://www.globalaccessinaction.org/files/2018/05/GAiA-Annual-Report-2017-FINAL.pdf"> here</a> to read more about annual report.</p>
<p><strong>About Global Access in Action</strong>
Global Access in Action, a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard University, seeks to expand access to lifesaving medicines and combat the communicable disease burden that disproportionately harms the world’s most vulnerable populations. We accomplish this by conducting action-oriented research, supporting breakthrough initiatives, facilitating stakeholder dialogue, and providing policy advice to both public and private sector stakeholders. GAiA seeks to foster dialogue across traditional boundaries between government, industry, civil society, and academia, and to promote new, innovative solutions amongst these parties to create better outcomes.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24388662018-05-08T21:11:00-04:002018-05-08T21:11:00-04:00Your Guide to BKC@RightsCon 2018 | Berkman Klein Centertag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24328832018-04-30T22:28:19-04:002018-04-30T22:28:19-04:00candersenGovernance and Regulation in the land of Crypto-Securities (as told by CryptoKitties) <h3>
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Join founding members of the CryptoKitties team, Dieter Shirley and Alex Shih, as they discuss the unique governance, legal, and regulatory challenges of putting cats on the Ethereum blockchain. </p>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Harvard Law School campus
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<p>Join founding members of the CryptoKitties team, Dieter Shirley and Alex Shih, as they discuss the unique governance, legal, and regulatory challenges of putting cats on the Ethereum blockchain. CryptoKitties is an early pioneer in the space, and, having navigated securities law early on in its release, will share unique insights on classifications. They will also discuss some of the more ethical challenges they've been facing, and best practices for approach.<strong><strong></strong></strong></p>
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<p>Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80 creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike.</p>
<p>Axiom Zen is the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of the month, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer &amp; Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, and Fast Company.</p>
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<ul><li><strong><a href="https://www.cryptokitties.co/">CryptoKitties</a></strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/blockchain-based-virtual-cats-created-by-cryptokitties-are-not-securities-bc-watchdog/article37916279/">Tokens underlying virtual cats created by CryptoKitties are not securities</a></strong></li>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24341212018-05-02T14:48:36-04:002018-05-02T14:48:36-04:00gweberEncryption Policy And Its International Impacts: A Framework For Understanding Extraterritorial Ripple Effects <h3>
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</p><p>This paper explores the potential international ripple effects that can occur following changes to domestic encryption policies.</p>
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<p>This paper explores the potential international ripple effects that can occur following changes to domestic encryption policies. Whether these changes take the form of a single coherent national policy or a collection of independent (or even conflicting) policies, the impacts can be unexpected and wide-ranging. This paper offers a conceptual model for how the ripple effects from national encryption policies might propagate beyond national borders. And we provide a set of factors that can help policy-makers anticipate some of the most likely ripple effects of proposed encryption policies.</p>
<p><a href="https://lawfareblog.com/encryption-policy-and-its-international-impacts-framework-understanding-extraterritorial-ripple">Read Ryan Budish's post from May 2, 2018, about the paper on <em>Lawfare</em>.</a></p>
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When do Harvard law students perceive digital file sharing (and piracy) as fine? </p>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Harvard Law School campus
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<p>Harvard Law School is one of the top law schools in the world and educates the intellectual and financial elites. Lawyers are held to the highest professional and ethical standards. And yet, when it comes to digital file sharing, they overwhelmingly perceive file sharing as an acceptable social practice – as long as individuals do not derive monetary benefits from it. We want to discuss this phenomenon, as well as the social contexts in which file sharing is more or less acceptable. We would also like to foster a discussion on the possible changes in regulation, that would catch up with the established social norm. </p>
<p><strong><strong>About Dariusz</strong></strong></p>
<p>Dariusz Jemielniak is a Wikipedian, Full Professor of Management at Kozminski University, and an entrepreneur (having established the largest online dictionary in Poland, ling.pl, among others). </p>
<p>Dariusz currently serves on Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. In his academic life, he studies open collaboration movement (in 2014 he published "Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia" with Stanford University Press), media files sharing practices (among lawyers and free knowledge activists), as well as political memes' communities. </p>
<p>He had visiting appointments at Cornell University (2004-2005), Harvard (2007, 2011-2012), and University of California, Berkeley (2008), where he studied software engineers' workplace culture.</p>
<p><strong><strong>About Jérôme</strong></strong></p>
<p>Jerome is an Assistant Research Professor at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), a Fellow at the Center for Law and Economics at ETH Zurich, and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard University. From 2011 to 2014, Jerome spent three years as a Research Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center, where he did most of his Ph.D. work.</p>
<p>Jerome is a behavioral economist operating at the boundaries between psychology, economics and computer science. In his research, he typically couples experimental methods with the analysis of big data to uncover how psychological and cognitive traits shape our behavior over the Internet, with a particular focus on online cooperation, peer production and decision making. He is strongly involved with Professor Yochai Benkler in the Cooperation project. He is also involved with the Mindsport Research Network, which he helped launch together with Professor Charles Nesson.</p>
<p>Jerome completed a Ph.D. in Economics at Sciences Po and the University of Strasbourg. He holds Master’s degrees in both International Economics and International Affairs from Sciences Po, and a B.A. in Economics &amp; Finance from the University of Strasbourg.</p>
<p>Jerome originates from the French region of Alsace. He has lived in France, Egypt, the U.S., Jordan and Switzerland. Jerome speaks French, English and Arabic and is heavily interested in public policy and international affairs.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24194712018-04-12T15:00:17-04:002018-04-27T16:23:16-04:00candersenBlockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code <h3>Subtitle</h3>
<p>A book talk featuring author, Primavera De Filippi</p>
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<p>Blockchain technology is ultimately a dual-edge technology that can be used to either support or supplant the law. This talk looks at the impact of blockchain technology of a variety of fields (finance, contracts, organizations, etc.), and the benefits and drawbacks of blockchain-based systems.</p>
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<p>This talk will look at how blockchain technology is a dual-edge technology that could be used to either support or supplant the law. After describing the impact of this new technology on a variety of fields (including payments, contracts, communication systems, organizations and the internet of things), it will examine how blockchain technology can be framed as a new form of regulatory technology, while at the same time enabling the creation of new autonomous systems which are harder to regulate. The talk will conclude with an overview of the various ways in which blockchain-based systems can be regulated, and what are the dangers of doing so.</p>
<h3><strong><strong><strong><strong>About <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/pdefilippi">Primavera De Filipi</a></strong></strong></strong></strong></h3>
<p>Primavera obtained a Master degree in Business &amp; Administration from the Bocconi University of Milan, and a Master degree in Intellectual Property Law at the Queen Mary University of London. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, where she explored the legal challenges of copyright law in the digital environment, with special attention to the mechanisms of private ordering (Digital Rights Management systems, Creative Commons licenses, etc). During these years, she spent two months at the University of Buffalo in New York and one year as a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. Primavera is now a permanent researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), where she founded the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research on Internet &amp; Society (<a href="http://www.iriis.fr/">www.iriis.fr</a>). Primavera was a former fellow and current faculty associate at the Berkmain-Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard University. <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/pdefilippi">Visit here for additional bio information for Primavera</a> including her online activities, research interests, recent publications, and online videos.</p>
<h3><strong><strong><strong>Links:</strong></strong></strong></h3>
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<li><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/no-blockchain-island/">https://www.coindesk.com/no-blockchain-island/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wired.com/2014/03/decentralized-applications-built-bitcoin-great-except-whos-responsible-outcomes/">https://www.wired.com/2014/03/decentralized-applications-built-bitcoin-great-except-whos-responsible-outcomes/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hbr.org/2017/03/what-blockchain-means-for-the-sharing-economy">https://hbr.org/2017/03/what-blockchain-means-for-the-sharing-economy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/03/must-understand-bitcoin-regulate/">https://www.wired.com/2016/03/must-understand-bitcoin-regulate/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2580664">https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2580664</a></li>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24177622018-04-10T18:43:47-04:002018-04-10T18:43:47-04:00candersenForce of Nature <h3>
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Celebrating 20 Years of the Laws of Cyberspace </h4>
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Teaser </h3>
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Join us as we celebrate 20 years of the Laws of Cyberspace and the ways in which it laid the groundwork for our Center's field of study. </p>
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Event Date </h3>
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<span>Apr</span>
<span>16</span>
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<p><strong>Monday, April 16, 2018 at 4:00 pm </strong> <strong>Harvard Law School campus
Austin Hall West, Room 111
Reception immediately following event <strong><a>RSVP required to attend in person</a>
Event will be webcast live</strong></strong></p>
<p>Celebrating 20 years of the Laws of Cyberspace and how it laid the groundwork for Berkman Klein Center's field of study.</p>
<p>Please join us as we recognize the 20th anniversary of the paper <em>The Laws of Cyberspace (Taipei March '98) </em>by Professor Lawrence Lessig. Join Professor Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, along with Professor Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center, and Dr. Laura DeNardis, Professor in the School of Communication at American University, with moderator, Professor Jonathan Zittrain, the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and Faculty Director of the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society. </p>
<p><strong><strong><strong>About Professor Lessig</strong></strong></strong></p>
<p>Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of the AXA Research Fund, and on the advisory boards of Creative Commons and the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.</p>
<p><strong><strong><strong>About Professor Okediji</strong></strong></strong></p>
<p>Ruth L. Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center. A renowned scholar in international intellectual property (IP) law and a foremost authority on the role of intellectual property in social and economic development, Professor Okediji has advised inter-governmental organizations, regional economic communities, and national governments on a range of matters related to technology, innovation policy, and development. Her widely cited scholarship on IP and development has influenced government policies in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and South America. Her ideas have helped shape national strategies for the implementation of the WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). She works closely with several United Nations agencies, research centers, and international organizations on the human development effects of international IP policy, including access to knowledge, access to essential medicines and issues related to indigenous innovation systems.</p>
<p><strong><strong><strong>About Dr. DeNardis</strong></strong></strong></p>
<p>Dr. Laura DeNardis is a globally recognized Internet governance scholar and a Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC. She also serves as Faculty Director of the Internet Governance Lab at American University. Her books include The Global War for Internet Governance (Yale University Press 2014); Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability (MIT Press 2011); Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance (MIT Press 2009); Information Technology in Theory (Thompson 2007 with Pelin Aksoy), and a new co-edited book The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance (Palgrave 2016). With a background in information engineering and a doctorate in Science and Technotag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24177632018-04-10T18:43:47-04:002018-04-10T18:43:47-04:00candersenHonoring All Expertise: Social Responsibility and Ethics in Tech <h3>
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featuring Kathy Pham &amp; Friends from the Berkman Klein Community </h4>
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Learn more about social responsibility and ethics in tech from cross functional perspectives featuring social scientists, computer scientists, historians, lawyers, political scientists, architects, and philosophers. </p>
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<a>Berkman Klein Luncheon Series</a> </h3>
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Event Date </h3>
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<span>Apr</span>
<span>17</span>
<span>2018</span>
<span>12:00pm</span>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Harvard Law School campus
[UPDATED] Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B
Room 2019, Second Floor <strong><a>RSVP required to attend in person</a>
Event will be live webcast at 12:00 pm</strong></strong></p>
<p>The Ethical Tech working group at the Berkman Klein Center will host a series of lighting talks about social responsibility and ethics in tech from cross functional perspectives featuring social scientists, computer scientists, historians, lawyers, political scientists, architects, and philosophers. The Ethical Tech working group meets weekly to discuss and debate current tech events, experiencing the deep value of different expertise in the room to discuss the issues from different angles. </p>
<h3><strong><strong>Doaa Abu-Elyounes</strong></strong></h3>
<p>Doaa Abu-Elyounes is a second year S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, where she researches the effect of artificial intelligence algorithms on the criminal justice system. Before starting her S.J.D, Doaa Completed an LL.M at Harvard Law School. Doaa is originally from Israel, where she completed an LL.B and LL.M in the University of Haifa with a special focus on law and technology. After law school, Doaa worked at the Supreme Court of Israel as a law clerk; and at the Israeli Ministry of Justice as an advisor to the Director General of the Ministry. During her time in the Berkman Center, Doaa will focus on algorithmic accountability and governance of AI in criminal justice. In particular, she will analyze the impact of risk assessment tools involving AI on the criminal justice system.</p>
<h3><strong><strong>Joanne Cheung</strong></strong></h3>
<p>Joanne K. Cheung is an artist and designer. Her work focuses on how people, buildings, and media contribute to democratic governance. She enjoys thinking across scales and collaborating across differences. </p>
<p>She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College, M.F.A. from Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, and is currently pursuing her M.Arch at Harvard Graduate School of Design. </p>
<h3><strong><strong>Mary Gray</strong></strong></h3>
<p>Mary L. Gray is a Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. She chairs the Microsoft Research Lab Ethics Advisory Board. Mary maintains a faculty position in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology, Gender Studies and the Media School, at Indiana University. Mary’s research looks at how technology access, social conditions, and everyday uses of media transform people’s lives. Her most recent book, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America, looked at how youth in the rural United States use media to negotiate their identities, local belonging, and connections to broader, political communities. Mary’s current project combines ethnography, interviews, and survey data with large-scale platform transaction data to understand the impact of automation on the future of work and workers’ lives. Mary’s research has been covered in the popular press, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian. She served on the American Anthropological Association’s Executive Board and chaired its 113th Annual Meeting. Mary currently sits on the Executive Board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&amp;R). In 2017, Mary joined Stanford University’s “One-Hundred-Year Study on Artificial Intelligence” (AI100), looking at the future of AI and its policy implications.</p>
<h3><strong><strong>Jenn Halen</strong></strong></h3>
<p>Jenn Halen is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center. She works on research and community activities for the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative. Jenn is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Minnesota and a former National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her research broadly focuses on the ways that new and emerging techtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24194702018-04-12T15:00:12-04:002018-04-27T16:39:45-04:00candersenForce of Nature<h3>Subtitle</h3>
<p>Celebrating 20 Years of the Laws of Cyberspace</p>
<h3>Teaser</h3>
<p>Join us as we celebrate 20 years of the Laws of Cyberspace and the ways in which it laid the groundwork for our Center's field of study.</p>
<h3>Event Date</h3>
<p>Apr 16 2018 4:00pm to Apr 16 2018 4:00pm</p>
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<p><strong>Monday, April 16, 2018 at 4:00 pm </strong> <strong>Harvard Law School campus Austin Hall West, Room 111 Reception immediately following event <strong>RSVP required to attend in person Event will be webcast live</strong></strong></p>
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<p>Celebrating 20 years of the Laws of Cyberspace and how it laid the groundwork for Berkman Klein Center's field of study.</p>
<p>Please join us as we recognize the 20th anniversary of the paper <em>The Laws of Cyberspace (Taipei March '98) </em>by Professor Lawrence Lessig. Join Professor Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, along with Professor Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center, and Dr. Laura DeNardis, Professor in the School of Communication at American University, with moderator, Professor Jonathan Zittrain, the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and Faculty Director of the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society. </p>
<h3><strong><strong><strong>About Professor Lessig</strong></strong></strong></h3>
<p>Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of the AXA Research Fund, and on the advisory boards of Creative Commons and the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.</p>
<h3><strong><strong><strong>About Professor Okediji</strong></strong></strong></h3>
<p>Ruth L. Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center. A renowned scholar in international intellectual property (IP) law and a foremost authority on the role of intellectual property in social and economic development, Professor Okediji has advised inter-governmental organizations, regional economic communities, and national governments on a range of matters related to technology, innovation policy, and development. Her widely cited scholarship on IP and development has influenced government policies in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and South America. Her ideas have helped shape national strategies for the implementation of the WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). She works closely with several United Nations agencies, research centers, and international organizations on the human development effects of international IP policy, including access to knowledge, access to essential medicines and issues related to indigenous innovation systems.</p>
<h3><strong><strong><strong>About Dr. DeNardis</strong></strong></strong></h3>
<p>Dr. Laura DeNardis is a globally recognized Internet governance scholar and a Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC. She also serves as Faculty Director of the Internet Governance Lab at American University. Her books include The Global War for Internet Governance (Yale University Press 2014); Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability (MIT Press 2011); Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance (MIT Press 2009); Information Technology in Theory (Thompson 2007 with Pelin Aksoy), and a new co-edited book T</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24165452018-04-09T16:00:11-04:002018-04-09T16:00:11-04:00candersenTHEFT! A History of Music <h3>
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Professors James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins (Duke Law School) discuss Theft! A History of Music, their graphic novel about musical borrowing. </h4>
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Teaser </h3>
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Theft! A History of Music is a graphic novel laying out a 2000-year long history of musical borrowing from Plato to rap. </p>
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Parent Event </h3>
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<a>Berkman Klein Luncheon Series</a> </h3>
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Event Date </h3>
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<span>Apr</span>
<span>10</span>
<span>2018</span>
<span>12:00pm</span>
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<span>2018</span>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Harvard Law School campus
Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East A
Room 2036, Second Floor <strong><a>RSVP required to attend in person</a>
Event will be live webcast at 12:00 pm</strong></strong></p>
<h3><strong>You can download the book <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/"> here</a>. Complimentary copies available at event!</strong></h3>
<p>This comic book lays out 2000 years of musical history. A neglected part of musical history. Again and again there have been attempts to police music; to restrict borrowing and cultural cross-fertilization. But music builds on itself. To those who think that mash-ups and sampling started with YouTube or the DJ’s turntables, it might be shocking to find that musicians have been borrowing—extensively borrowing—from each other since music began. Then why try to stop that process? The reasons varied. Philosophy, religion, politics, race—again and again, race—and law. And because music affects us so deeply, those struggles were passionate ones. They still are.</p>
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<p>The history in this book runs from <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/21/">Plato</a> to <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/193/">Blurred Lines</a> and beyond. You will read about the <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/29/">Holy Roman Empire’s attempts</a> to standardize religious music with the first great musical technology (notation) and <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/30/">the inevitable backfire of that attempt</a>. You will read about <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/36/">troubadours</a> and church composers, swapping tunes (and <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/34/">remarkably profane lyrics</a>), changing both religion and music in the process. You will see <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/108/">diatribes against jazz</a> for corrupting musical culture, against <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/137/">rock and roll for breaching the color-line</a>. You will learn about the <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/173/">lawsuits that, surprisingly, shaped rap</a>. You will read the story of some of music’s iconoclasts—from <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/52/">Handel and Beethoven</a> to <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/132/">Robert Johnson</a>, <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/134/">Chuck Berry</a>, <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/139/">Little Richard</a>, <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/212/">Ray Charles</a>, the <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/145/">British Invasion</a> and <a href="https://law.duke.edu/musiccomic/read/large/171/">Public Enemy</a>.</p>
<p>To understand this history fully, one has to roam wider still—into musical technologies from notation to the sample deck, aesthetics, the incentive systems that got musicians paid, and law’s 250 year struggle to assimilate music, without destroying it in the process. Would jazz, soul or rock and roll be legal if they were reinvented today? We are not sure and that seems... worrying. We look forward to playing you some of the music, showing the pictures and hearing your views. </p>
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<h3><strong><strong>About James</strong></strong></h3>
<p>James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School and the former Chairman of the Board of Creative Commons. He has written for <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The Financial Times</em>, <em>Newsweek</em> and many other newspapers and magazines. His other books include <a href="http://www.thepublicdomain.org/"><em>The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind</em></a>, <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Shamans_Software_and_Spleens.html?id=Fvrzk5uZO_QC"><em>Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society</em></a>, and <a href="https://law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/"><em>Bound By Law</em></a> a comic book about fair use, copyright and tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24165462018-04-09T16:00:16-04:002018-04-09T16:00:16-04:00candersenRemedies for Cyber Defamation: Criminal Libel, Anti-Speech Injunctions, Forgeries, Frauds, and More <h3>
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Featuring Professor Eugene Volokh, UCLA School of Law </h4>
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Teaser </h3>
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“Cheap speech” has massively increased ordinary people’s access to mass communications -- both for good and for ill. How has the system of remedies for defamatory, privacy-invading, and harassing speech reacted? Some ways are predictable; some are surprising; some are shocking. Prof. Eugene Volokh (UCLA) will lay it out at a special Berkman Klein Luncheon on Monday, April 9th. Please join us! </p>
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<p><strong>Monday, April 9, 2018 at 12:00 pm</strong></p>
<p><em>Video and audio will be available on this page soon</em></p>
<p><em>This event is being sponsored by <a href="https://www.lumendatabase.org/">Lumen</a>, a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard University.</em></p>
<p>“Cheap speech” has massively increased ordinary people’s access to mass communications -- both for good and for ill. How has the system of remedies for defamatory, privacy-invading, and harassing speech reacted? Some ways are predictable; some are surprising; some are shocking. Prof. Eugene Volokh (UCLA) will lay it out at a special Berkman Klein Luncheon on Monday, April 9th. </p>
<p><strong><strong><strong>About Professor Volokh</strong></strong></strong></p>
<p>Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, tort law, religious freedom law, church-state relations law, and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy. Before coming to UCLA, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.</p>
<p>Volokh is the author of the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes (5th ed. 2013), The Religion Clauses and Related Statutes (2005), and Academic Legal Writing (4th ed. 2010), as well as over 75 law review articles and over 80 op-eds, listed below. He is a member of <a href="http://ali.org/">The American Law Institute</a>, a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and the founder and coauthor of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/">The Volokh Conspiracy</a>, a Weblog that gets about 35-40,000 pageviews per weekday. He is among the five most cited then-under-45 faculty members listed in the <a href="http://www.leiterrankings.com/new/2010_scholarlyimpact.shtml">Top 25 Law Faculties in Scholarly Impact</a>, 2005-2009 study, and among the forty most cited faculty members on that list without regard to age. These citation counts refer to citations in law review articles, but his works have also been cited by courts. Six of his law review articles have been cited by opinions of the Supreme Court Justices; twenty-nine of his works (mostly articles but also a textbook, an op-ed, and a blog post) have been cited by federal circuit courts; and several others have been cited by district courts or state courts.</p>
<p>Volokh is also an Academic Affiliate for the <a href="http://mayerbrown.com/">Mayer Brown LLP</a> law firm; he generally consults on other lawyers' cases, but he has argued before the Seventh Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, the Indiana Supreme Court, and the Nebraska Supreme Court, and has also filed briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits, and state appellate courts in California, Michigan, New Mexico, and Texas.</p>
<p>Volokh worked for 12 years as a computer programmer. He graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in math-computer science at age 15, and has written many articles on computer software. Volokh was born in the USSR; his family emigrated to the U.S. when he was seven years old.</p>
<p><strong>About Lumen</strong></p>
<p>Lumen is an independent 3rd party research project studying cease and desist letters concerning online content. We collect and analyze requests to remove material from the web. Our goals are to educate the public, to facilitate research about the different kinds of complaints and requests for removal--both legitimate and questionable--that are being sent to Internet publishers and service providers, and to provide as much transparency as possible about the “ecology” of such notices, in terms of who is sending them and why, and to what effect.</p>
<p>Our database contains millions of notices, some of them with valid legal basis, stag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24127202018-04-04T12:56:12-04:002018-04-05T20:09:44-04:00Practical Approaches to Big Data Privacy Over Time | Berkman Klein Center<p><span>The Berkman Klein Center is pleased to announce a new publication from </span><a href="https://privacytools.seas.harvard.edu/">the Privacy Tools project</a><span>, authored by a multidisciplinary group of project collaborators from the Berkman Klein Center and the Program on Information Science at MIT Libraries. This article, titled "</span><a href="https://academic.oup.com/idpl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/idpl/ipx027/4930711">Practical approaches to big data privacy over time</a><span>," analyzes how privacy risks multiply as large quantities of personal data are collected over longer periods of time, draws attention to the relative weakness of data protections in the corporate and public sectors, and provides practical recommendations for protecting privacy when collecting and managing commercial and government data over extended periods of time.</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24195602018-04-12T16:52:06-04:002018-04-12T16:52:06-04:00gweber Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics <h3>
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</p><p>This timely, groundbreaking volume explores key questions from a variety of perspectives, examining how law promotes or discourages the use of big data in the health care sphere, and also what we can learn from other sectors.</p>
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<p><em>Edited by <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10176/Cohen">I. Glenn Cohen</a>, <a href="http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/about/bio/lynch-holly-fernandez">Holly Fernandez Lynch</a>, <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/evayena">Effy Vayena</a>, and <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/ugasser">Urs Gasser</a></em>
Cambridge University Press, March 2018</p>
<p>About the Book:</p>
<p><em>When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health - from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records - can we really differentiate between big data and health big data? Will health big data be used for good, such as to improve drug safety, or ill, as in insurance discrimination? Will it disrupt health care (and the health care system) as we know it? Will it be possible to protect our health privacy? What barriers will there be to collecting and utilizing health big data? What role should law play, and what ethical concerns may arise? This timely, groundbreaking volume explores these questions and more from a variety of perspectives, examining how law promotes or discourages the use of big data in the health care sphere, and also what we can learn from other sectors.</em></p>
<p>This edited volume stems from the Petrie-Flom Center’s <a href="http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/2016-annual-conference">2016 annual conference</a>, organized in collaboration with the <a href="https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/">Berkman Klein Center</a> and the <a href="http://www.ebpi.uzh.ch/en/aboutus/departments/publichealth/healthpol/healthethpollab.html">Health Ethics and Policy Lab</a>, University of Zurich which brought together leading experts to identify the various ways in which law and ethics intersect with the use of big data in health care and health research, particularly in the United States; understand the way U.S. law (and potentially other legal systems) currently promotes or stands as an obstacle to these potential uses; determine what might be learned from the legal and ethical treatment of uses of big data in other sectors and countries; and examine potential solutions (industry best practices, common law, legislative, executive, domestic and international) for better use of big data in health care and health research in the U.S.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24082652018-03-29T11:27:21-04:002018-03-29T11:27:21-04:00A Conversation on Data and Privacy with former Facebook GC Chris Kelly | Berkman Klein Centertag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24062362018-03-27T03:00:39-04:002018-03-27T03:00:39-04:00candersenDividing Lines: Why Is Internet Access Still Considered a Luxury in America? <h3>
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Internet access is a major social and economic justice issue of our time. Dividing Lines, a four-part documentary video series, sheds a light on who is being left behind as big telecom flourishes. </p>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Harvard Law School campus
Pound Hall Room 101
Ballantine Classroom <strong><a>RSVP required to attend in person</a>
Event will be live webcast at 12:00 pm</strong></strong></p>
<p>The online world is no longer a distinct world. It is an extension of our social, economic, and political lives. Internet access, however, is still often considered a luxury good in the United States. Millions of Americans have been priced out of, or entirely excluded from, the reach of modern internet networks. Maria Smith, an affiliate of Berkman Klein and the Cyberlaw Clinic, created a four-part documentary series to highlight these stark divides in connectivity, from Appalachia to San Francisco, and to uncover the complex web of political and economic forces behind them. </p>
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<div>Maria Smith is a Project Coordinator working with Professor Susan Crawford in Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic and leading the efforts of the Responsive Communities project within Berkman Klein. She is focused on the intersection of technology deployment and social and economic justice. Maria is also a documentary filmmaker whose productions expose the impacts of and forces behind America's stark digital divides. She made her directorial debut in college with the film One Nation, Disconnected, in cooperation with the Harvard Law Documentary Studio, that details the hardship of a teenager growing up in New York City without internet access at home. Dividing Lines, a four-part series, is in production this year. </div>
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<div>Maria first joined the Berkman Klein and Harvard Law communities as an undergraduate conducting teaching, research, and project support for Professor Susan Crawford. Maria graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in Economics. In college she was invested in work with the Global Health and AIDS Coalition and co-chaired the annual Women’s Leadership Conference. She worked as an intern for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Connecting for Good, and Morgan Stanley. <em> </em></div>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24087622018-03-30T02:00:47-04:002018-03-30T02:00:47-04:00candersenA talk with Marilù Capparelli, PhD <h3>
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Legal Director at Google </h4>
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Please join the Harvard Italian Law Association and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society for a discussion on several legal and regulatory issues concerning digital platforms: controversial content, brand safety, privacy and GDPR compliance, scope of removal and CJEU pending cases, tax, copyright, and antitrust enforcement. </p>
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[NEW LOCATION] Hauser Hall 104
Complimentary lunch provided</strong></p>
<p>Please join the Harvard Italian Law Association and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society for a discussion on several legal and regulatory issues concerning digital platforms: controversial content, brand safety, privacy and GDPR compliance, scope of removal and CJEU pending cases, tax, copyright, and antitrust enforcement.</p>
<p>Ms. Marilù Capparelli is managing director of Google Legal Department in the EMEA area. Before joining Google, she was Head of Legal and Government Affairs at eBay Inc. She is the author of several legal articles and regularly lectures in master degrees on law and technology. She has been recently listed amongst the most influential Italian women lawyers. </p>
<p><em>This event is being co-sponsored by the Harvard Italian Law Association at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard University.</em></p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/24006812018-03-20T10:24:21-04:002018-03-20T10:24:21-04:00Summer opportunities for student developers at BKC | Berkman Klein Centertag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23928062018-03-10T01:30:49-05:002018-03-10T01:30:49-05:00candersenThe Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World <h3>
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Jennifer E. Rothman will be talking about her book, The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World (Harvard University Press 2018).She challenges the conventional story of the right of publicity's development, and questions the transformation of people into intellectual property. </p>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 12:00 pm
Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard University
Harvard Law School campus
Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East A (Room 2036, second floor) <strong><a>RSVP required to attend in person</a>
Event will be live webcast at 12:00 pm</strong></strong></p>
<p>Who controls how one's identity is used by others? This legal question, centuries old, demands greater scrutiny in the Internet Age. Jennifer Rothman uses the right of publicity - a little-known law, often wielded by celebrities - to answer that question not just for the famous, but for everyone. Rothman challenges the conventional story of the right of publicity's development, and questions its transformation of people into intellectual property. This shift and the right's subsequent expansion undermine individual liberty, restrict free speech, and suppress artistic works.</p>
<p><strong><strong>About Jennifer</strong></strong></p>
<p>Jennifer E. Rothman is Professor of Law and the Joseph Scott Fellow at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She joined the Loyola faculty from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was an Associate Professor of Law. Professor Rothman currently <a></a>teaches Trademarks and Unfair Competition, Torts, Intellectual Property Theory and the Right of Publicity. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an affiliated fellow at the Yale Information Society Project at Yale Law School. </p>
<p>Professor Rothman is nationally recognized for her scholarship in the intellectual property field, and has become the leading expert on the right of publicity. She researches and writes primarily in the areas of intellectual property and constitutional law. In addition to focusing on conflicts between IP rights and other constitutionally protected rights, such as the freedom of speech, her work also explores the intersections of tort and property law, particularly in the context of the right of publicity and trademark and unfair competition law. Her forthcoming book, <em>The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World</em>, will be published by Harvard University Press. Professor Rothman created <em>Rothman’s Roadmap to the Right of Publicity</em>, <a href="http://www.rightofpublicityroadmap.com/">www.rightofpublicityroadmap.com</a>, the go-to-website for right-of-publicity questions and news<strong>.</strong></p>
<p>Rothman’s essays and articles regularly appear in top law reviews and journals, including <em>Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal</em>, <em>Virginia Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law &amp; Public Policy </em>and the <em>Stanford Law &amp; Policy Review</em>. She is regularly invited to speak at a variety of esteemed institutions, including Columbia, Michigan, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, U.C. Berkeley, UCLA and Yale.</p>
<p>Rothman received her A.B. from Princeton University where she received the Asher Hinds Book Prize and the Grace May Tilton Prize. Rothman received an M.F.A. in film production from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she directed an award-winning documentary. Rothman then worked in the film industry for a number of years, including positions at Paramount Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment.</p>
<p>Rothman received her J.D. from UCLA, where she graduated first in her class and won the Jerry Pacht Memorial Constitutional Law Award for her scholarship in that field. Rothman served as law clerk to the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco and then practiced as an entertainment and intellectual property litigator in Los Angeles at Irell &amp; Manella.</p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980983"><em>The Right of Publicity Privacy Reimagined for a Public World, </em>Jennifer E. Rothman (Hartag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23868292018-03-02T13:30:41-05:002018-03-02T13:30:41-05:00candersenThe Accuracy, Fairness, and Limits of Predicting Recidivism <h3>
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COMPAS is a software used across the country to predict who will commit future crimes. It doesn’t perform any better than untrained people who responded to an online survey. </p>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Harvard Law School campus
Pound Hall, Ballantine Classroom
Room 101 <strong><a>RSVP required to attend in person</a>
Event will be live webcast at 12:00 pm</strong></strong></p>
<div>Algorithms for predicting recidivism are commonly used to assess a criminal defendant’s likelihood of committing a crime. Proponents of these systems argue that big data and advanced machine learning make these analyses more accurate and less biased than humans. However, our study shows that the widely used commercial risk assessment software COMPAS is no more accurate or fair than predictions made by people with little or no criminal justice expertise.</div>
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<div><em>This event is supported by the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society. In conjunction with the MIT Media Lab, the Initiative is developing activities, research, and tools to ensure that fast-advancing AI serves the public good. Learn more at </em><a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/research/ai"><em>https://cyber.harvard.edu/research/ai</em></a><em>.</em></div>
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<p><strong><strong>About Julia</strong></strong></p>
<div>Julia Dressel recently graduated from Dartmouth College, where she majored in both Computer Science and Women’s, Gender, &amp; Sexuality Studies. She is currently a software engineer in Silicon Valley. Her interests are in the intersection of technology and bias. </div>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23852982018-02-28T21:17:45-05:002018-02-28T21:17:45-05:00ctiltonThe Yemen War Online: Propagation of Censored Content on Twitter <h3>
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</p><p>This study documents and analyzes the sharing of information on Twitter among different political groups related to the ongoing conflict in Yemen. </p>
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<p>This study, conducted by the Internet Monitor project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society, analyzes the sharing of information on Twitter among different political groups related to the ongoing conflict in Yemen. The study finds that the networks on Twitter are organized around and segregate along political lines. The networks cite web content, including censored websites, that reflects and informs their collective framing of the politically sensitive issues. Each of the factions relies almost entirely on their own sources of information.</p>
<p>The study also tests for the availability of this open web content shared on Twitter in the countries most engaged in the public debate over the conflict and find that national filtering policies also seek to shape the narrative by blocking views and perspectives that diverge from government positions on the conflict. While selective exposure to web content is often associated with polarization, the paper shows that social media—in this case Twitter—is used to propagate censored content from the open web, making it more visible to users behind open-web filtering regimes. The evidence shows that government attempts to corral social media users into government-friendly media bubbles does not work, although government filters make it more difficult to access some content. Instead, social media users coalesce into self-defined media spheres aligned around social and political affinities.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23868302018-03-02T13:30:44-05:002018-03-02T13:30:44-05:00gweberYour Guide to BKC@SXSW 2018 <h3> Teaser </h3> <p> </p><p>Headed to SXSW this year? If so, be sure to check out some of these panels and discussions led by members of the Berkman Klein community.</p> <p></p><div><div>Thumbnail Image: </div><div><div><img src="https://cyber.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.harvard.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/thumbnails/SEO-Card_1440x810.png?itok=ncowHwN0" width="120" height="52" alt=""></div></div></div> <div> <p></p><p>Headed to SXSW this year? If so, be sure to check out some of these panels and discussions led by members of the Berkman Klein community.</p><div><p><a href="https://www.sxsw.com/apply-to-participate/sxsw-art-program/"><img alt="" src="https://cyber.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.harvard.edu/files/SXSW_Secrets-25-640x360.png"></a></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.sxsw.com/apply-to-participate/sxsw-art-program/">The Future of Secrets</a> <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/snewman">Sarah Newman</a>, <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/node/99656">Jessica Yurkofsky</a>, and <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/rkalmar">Rachel Kalmar</a></strong></p><p><strong>Details: </strong>March 9-17 - Fairmont Verbena Room <em>Are secrets uniquely​ ​human?​ Our​ ​private​ ​lives ​are mediated and​ ​recorded​ ​by​ ​digital​ ​devices. ​Where​ ​are​ ​our​ ​secrets​ ​now? Where​ ​will​ ​they​ ​be​ ​in​ ​the​ ​future,​ ​and​ ​who—or what—might​ ​read​ ​them?​ ​How​ ​will​ ​intelligent systems​ ​of​ ​the​ ​future​ ​process​ ​the​ ​data ​we​ ​leave​ ​behind?​ ​Will​ ​they​ ​know​ ​things​ ​about​ ​us that​ ​we​ ​don’t​ ​(and​ ​never​ ​could)​ ​know​ ​about​ ​ourselves?</em></p><p><em>The​ ​Future​ ​of​ ​Secrets​​ ​is​ ​an​ ​interactive​ ​installation​ created by Sarah Newman, Jessica Yurkofsky, and Rachel Kalmar from metaLAB at Harvard. It is an immersive experience that includes sound, projection, and interaction; the installation asks​ ​participants​ ​to​ ​anonymously share​ ​their​ ​secrets ​as​ ​a​ ​way​ ​to​ question​ ​the​ ​trust we​ ​place​ ​in​ ​machines​, and ultimately​ ​reflect​ back​ ​our​ ​own​ ​humanness.​ ​What​ ​does​ ​it​ ​mean for​ ​us​ ​to​ ​share​ ​so​ ​much​ ​of​ ​ourselves​ ​through ​complex ​systems and digitally distributed networks?​ The installation inspires delight, surprise, and reflection while evoking questions about uncertain technological futures.</em><a href="https://schedule.sxsw.com/2018/events/PP70062"> </a></p><p><strong><a href="https://schedule.sxsw.com/2018/events/PP70062">Keep the Internet International, Not Internal!</a> Fabro Steibel, Barbora Bukovská,<a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/mjayaram"> Malavika Jayaram</a>, Jan Gerlach</strong></p><p><strong>Details: </strong>Friday, March 9th, 2018; 11am-12pm – Hilton Austin Downtown Salon F <em>The internet enables access to knowledge for everyone and across national borders. However, legislators and courts around the world are now seeking to enforce national laws globally. Such extraterritorial jurisdiction to remove content from the web is a worrying trend both for fundamental rights online and the cohesion of the internet itself. Our panel explores the threat of creating many disconnected national networks and what should be done to avoid it.</em></p><p><strong><a href="https://schedule.sxsw.com/2018/events/PP78308">What Does it Take to Change People’s Minds?</a> Laura Dawn, Elizabeth Spiers,<a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/jslezak"> James Slezak</a></strong></p><p><strong>Details: </strong>Saturday, March 10th, 2018; 11am-12pm – Fairmont Congressional B <em>In the era of Trump, the notion of truth is under attack today as never before. With digital media rapidly displacing models that served us for two generations, we face crucial choices. Will the new landscape further divide and misinform us, or can new forms of digital communities, campaigns and services reverse the slide? Four leading figures from the worlds of digital media, advocacy and data join for an interactive session to debate emerging solutions and threats, and explore what we can do.</em></p><p><strong><a href="https://schedule.sxsw.com/2018/events/PP77091">Ending the Dangerous Disconnect Between DC and AI</a> <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/thwang">Tim Hwang</a>, John Delaney, Terah Lyons, Clark Jennings</strong></p><p><strong>Details: </strong>Saturday, March 10th, 2018; 5-6pm – Hilton Austin Downtown Salon F The AI and DC communities are just beginning a crucial conversation about how to ensure the benefits of the AI revolution are shared and its risks are minimized. In 2016, the Obama Administration published a roadmap to help policymakers prepare for AI. In this session, experts from DC and Silicon Valley advance the debate, addressing how best to engage policymakers, what issues require the most urgent attention, and how to work constructively with the stakeholders shaping our intelligent future.</p><p><strong><a href="https://schedule.sxsw.com/2018/events/PP73230">Smashing the Firewall: Reporting in Iran</a></strong> <strong><a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/skargar">Simtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/23847592018-02-28T10:30:59-05:002018-02-28T10:30:59-05:00Seeking Research Assistant for the Harmful Speech Online Project | Berkman Klein Center